The International
Association of Black Professional Fire Fighters (IABPFF) is launching the
Climbing for Life fire safety campaign. The
campaign promotes the awareness and safe use of home fire escape ladders,
smoke alarms and home escape planning. Young children, under the age of
14, are often afraid to descend a ladder as most children have a fear of
heights. A fire in the home becomes a stressful situation and a child may
become almost paralyzed with fear and refuse to descend the ladder. Climbing for
Life promotes
the regular practice of home escape plans; installation of residential
smoke alarms, and safe climbing of appropriate home escape ladders. For
more information on this campaign, see the Press Release below.

To request
supplies for the campaign, please click on
the document below to access the form. You
can fill it out online, sign and save it or
print it to a file to email to:iabpfcflc@iabpf.org
or
execdir411@hotmail.com.

The "Climbing for Life"
campaign will provide training on the safe use of home escape ladders and
provide smoke alarms and home escape ladders to residents and homeowners
that successfully complete the training and participate in a home fire
escape planning. There is no cost for the training, smoke alarms or home
escape ladders. Training, escape ladders and smoke alarms will be provided
by local participating Chapters of the IABPFF. Special emphasis is placed
on serving communities in Rochester ( NY), Detroit (MI), Cleveland (OH),
Gary (IN), Memphis (TN), Kansas City (MO) and New Haven (CT). All
communities are welcome to participate.

Contact a chapter in your area today. See the IABPFFRegions page for chapter near you.